Contracting Officer

Start Date: 1997-09-01End Date: 2003-04-01

Assignments include rotational roles at NGA and NROActed as chief decision maker in the proposal review process and had ultimate responsibility for negotiation of financial, legal, security, and work scope aspects of contracts to ensure that resulting agreements were consistent with program needs, and established Agency procurement practices.Administered a large portfolio of sophisticated, complex, and hypersensitive international IT development and IT service contracts for national security valued at >$500M. Directly engaged in the daily management of operational activities for 400+ cleared contractor personnel worldwide.Highly trained to be an expert “Lead Negotiator” with extraordinary experience earned while negotiating on behalf of the US Intelligence Community in various clandestine international arenas. Represented organizational interests in various inter- and intra-organizational forums, conferences, and meetings.Helped prepare, defend and execute budgets plus assisted implementation of direct and indirect cost control measures. Developed and implemented metrics and processes necessary to achieve program goals. Formulated and aligned systems, protocols, policies, operational business strategies and controls that supported the covert mission and strategic direction of the organization’s programs, often under abnormally high stress conditions.Developed solutions to urgent crises and problems of unusual complexity requiring a high degree of ingenuity, creativity, and innovativeness. Unique solutions frequently served as precedents for future decisions within the organization and throughout the agency and beyond.